Floodlights and Goalposts

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Hurrahing in Harvest, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

A poem for the autumnal equinox.

Hurrahing in Harvest, by Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer ends now; barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour; And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a Rapturous love's greeting of realer, or rounder replies? And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder Majestic - as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! - These things, these things were here and but the beholder Wanting; which two when they once meet, The heart rears wings bold and bolder And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Hopkins: Poems (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series) London: Everyman’s Library, 1995.

Jack Fuzz

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